ECU Centennial
"Covering the period, 1901-1911, the ECU Centennial Exhibit is an effort to make available to a wide audience a variety of insights into the early history and growth of what is now known as East Carolina University. Through images, documents and commentaries of actual participants, the exhibit traces the complex but rewarding relationships that developed between the Eastern North Carolina community and the fledgling college. From the original idea for a state training school, through the struggle over legislative approval, to the first graduating class, the exhibit brings the early history of ECU to life and light. Without pretending to encompass the whole story of ECU’s establishment, the exhibit attempts faithfully to follow the ups and downs of what came to be East Carolina University.
Bismarck once said:
"Laws are like sausages.
It's better not to see them being made."
That may be good advice to those who like laws or sausages;
perhaps it is not so good advice to lovers of history.
Indeed, the approach of ECU's
centennial, in 2007, is the appropriate time to reflect on its early history
and the ECU Centennial Exhibit is an ideal place to begin to learn how ECU was
"made."
The ECU
Centennial Exhibit is directed at a general audience; it is informative and
lively; it is both historically accurate and accessible.
Nevertheless, it will also be useful
and interesting to scholars and other experts.
My advice to anyone interested in ECU's history is to
explore the ECU Centennial Exhibit."
Jonathan Dembo, Ph.D.
Head of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Joyner Library
East Carolina University
Steamers
Frank J. Cantelas
Maritime Studies Program
East Carolina University
"The Pitt County Digital Tobacco History Exhibit is a
unique and important resource for scholars, students and the general public
alike. No other archive or research center provides the depth, breadth, or
access necessary for understanding the critical history of the tobacco industry
in eastern North Carolina-- or the role that it played throughout the world.
Here you will discover the centrality of tobacco to a way of life for
generations of farmers, warehousemen, and factory workers. You will come to
understand tobacco life in all its glories and tragedies. It is not a simple
picture of Pitt County's tobacco heritage that emerges from the exhibit, but
one of refreshing complexity and nuance. I heartily recommend the exhibit for
giving eastern North Carolina's past a fitting home here in Greenville and sharing
it with the world."
2000-2001 Whichard Visiting
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Department of History, College of
Arts and Sciences
East Carolina University
and
2001-2002 Lehman Brady Joint Chair
Professor in Documentary and
American Studies
Duke University and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eastern North Carolina
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